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AUTOMATIC1111
stable-diffusion-webui
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stable-diffusion-webui

Stable Diffusion web UI

88Distinct people
98Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
165.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Stable Diffusion web UI

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

For the image generation (or even indexing with the CLIP interrogator) side of things, recommend just installing the AUTOMATIC1111 github repo…

andthenwhat used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month98 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-09-02 18:48:56 UTC to 2024-11-29 02:06:09 UTC.

0510152022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 2 submissions, 10 commentsSep 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 3 submissions, 7 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 4 submissions, 13 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsOct 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsNov 2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC12210
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC1037
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC918
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC17413
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC606
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC615
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20242024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20242024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

10 sources
Invoke, shared a few weeks ago, uses MIT and adheres to best practices in respecting model licenses/requirements (e.g., agreeing to not use it for hate speech, harming others, etc.) Automatic on the other hand, seems actively opposed to responding to the calls (cries?) for him to clarify a license for the repo. Closed without being addressed - https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/issu... 21 days open without response - https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/issu... We definitely need more projects who are completely open source (both WebUI and backend) to contribute to the ecosystem, and do so responsibly, adhering to lawful and ethical usage of the work of others.
In Show HN: AI magics meet Infinite draw board
There's a cool technique called "negative" prompt that I didn't see mentioned. Some of the community projects have implemented it. (I use https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui locally when I want to generate something). You pass in both your prompt and a negative prompt at the same time. The negative prompt describes what you don't want in your image and it'll try its best. There's some magic quality words like "jpeg artifacts" you can put on negative prompt and poof the image is less messy now.
In Stable Diffusion Prompt Book
I did actually submit a link to a GitHub issue about this, but it seems to have been blocked by HN. I can see the post title when I'm logged in but as a guest it doesn't show anything at all. The post wasn't even flagged as dead. It doesn't show up in my submitted links list when logged out either. I don't know if it tripped an internal filter on HN or something. Here is the link to the post in case you're curious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33146603 In case it matters I used the GitHub issue title as the name of the post - "Stable-diffusion-webui is using stolen code". Here is the actual link I posted. https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/issu...
In /r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story
I've been playing with something similar and it's pretty fun. Take a picture of a room then use img2img in stable diffusion automatic1111. Set denoising strength to a value between 0.3 and 0.6. Lower than 0.3 and not much will change, higher than 0.6 it tends to start changing the whole room. It can be used without a prompt or use a prompt to attempt to describe the room, like a "a living room with a grey couch a white table walls with wallpaper" then change parts of the prompt to morph it in desired direction, like add a chair something or add the name of art styles or "by someartistname". Just having a prompt that somewhat describes the room and pressing generate many times will also just create a lot of random alternative interiors, like in the video. If you want to create a video I guess you'd use deforum, but I haven't really tried t
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hat. The stuff documented under img2img alternative test here can also be useful if you manage to dial it in properly. This is for keeping the image more stable and getting more control of what you change. https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...
In Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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